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Annual report, accounts and rental for year ending June 1873, containing positive reports on the financial condition of the estate with only 'trifling arrears' of £32 and a general increase in overall rental income. Expenditure consisted of main drainage of lands at Roskeen, Queen's County; the reclamation of the bog at Killurin; thorough drainage at Bawnmore; construction of two new cottages in Geashill Village and a substantial range of offices for Mr Warren of Gorteen. Also comments on the scarcity of labour on the estate due to emigration to America, and that the 'Russian Village' (portable labourers' housing) has been moved to Cappyroe from Ballyknockan.

Regrets to say that relations with the tenantry are not entirely satisfactory. Tenants without a written contract were asked to sign one but the parish priest, using 'the extraordinary and mischievous power which an Irish priest possesses over an ignorant Roman Catholic tenantry', informed tenants that by signing they will exclude themselves from any benefit under the Land Act.

Describes the eviction of Mr. O'Flanagan, a large tenant on the estate, who had tried to establish 'tenant-right' through the courts but 'failed signally, as at the last moment before the claim came before the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, Mr. O'Flanagan signed a paper admitting that he had no claim whatever to tenant-right in his holding.'

Photograph of Gorteen Bridge, Clara, County Offaly.

Lease of part of the lands of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Timothy Quinn for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £12-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Gurteen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1825', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to John Cruise, David Hennesy, Owen Quinn, Dennis Beaghan, John Warren and Barney Cruise.

Lease of part of the lands of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Margaret Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £10-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Gurteen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Martin Keane and Thomas Nolan.

Lease of part of the lands of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Patt Deering for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £9-15-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Gurteen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Thomas Green, Thomas Stanly, John Carroll, Garret Carroll and Philip Brien.

Lease of part of the lands of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to John Green for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1825, at the yearly rate of £7-6-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Gurteen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1821', hand coloured.

Lease of part of the land of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Susanna and William Warren for one life or 21 years at a yearly rent of £10-19-11 from 25 March 1841.

Lease of part of the land of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Catherine and Thomas Warren for three lives or 31 years at a yearly rent of £38-19-0.

Lease of part of the land of Gurteen [Gorteen] from Edward Earl Digby to Esther Warren for one life or 21 years from 25 March 1842, at a yearly rent of £29-7-0.

Annual report and rental for year end June 1872, reporting a very satisfactory financial situation and an overview of receipts and disbursements on the estate. Notes that drainage and land improvements continued but that there was an increased difficulty in sourcing labourers. Main drains were completed at Killurin and Gorteen, and a thorough drain was built at Bawnmore. Reports that sums were expended on extensive fencing and top-dressing of lands. The village inn was completely remodelled and 'now forms one of the most striking features of the village.' Also report that the woods and plantations were more profitable than usual with a large contract won for the supply of ash timber to a Liverpool merchant. Oak and larch plantations were established on the land between the River Clodiagh and the new embankment. Describes the general condition of the estate as 'most satisfactory' and entirely free from violence and lawlessness. Notes, however, that Mr Flanagan, a tenant, disputed the right of Lord Digby to his property but failed at his attempt in doing so.

Roskeen rentals are missing from this volume in order to combine the accounts of the Geashill and Roskeen estates into one. They will appear in subsequent annual reports. John Townsend Trench signs for his father, William S. Trench, who may have already passed away (August 1872) by the time the report was submitted.